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How Effective is Perspiration at Cooling? This task (in PALM and in PALS) focuses on Regulation and Behavior. Students must emulate human perspiration by wrapping water filled test tubes in both wet and dry newspapers, and then collect data on the cooling water to discover trends and make predictions. This task includes: |
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Human Inheritance This task (in PALM and in PALS) focuses on Genetics and Molecular Biology and Patterns of Inheritance. Students must use their knowledge of Madelian genetics to answer questions about the occurance of a trait on a family tree. This task includes: |
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Leaky Faucet In this task, students must calculate how many drop of water fall out of a leaky faucet at certain time intervals. This task includes: |
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Math Club Mystery In Math Club Mystery students are asked to find out how many students, teachers and parents went on a trip to the movies. The key concept is to set up equations that represent the given information and use those equations to determine, from the given information the possible combinations of students, teachers and parents that were on the trip. This task includes:
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Multiple Solutions In this task, students will examine equations with multiple solutions and determine possible solutions. This task includes: |
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Multiplying Cells In this task, students must determine how many cells will be present at a given time by examining multiplication rates. This task includes: |
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Patchwork In this task, students must discover a formula for determining the number of triangles and squares needed for varying cushion sizes. This task includes: |
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Printing Tickets In this task, students will use graphs and illustrate the best possible choices for printing, in terms of cost efficiency, for ticket printing. Similar to Best Buy Tickets, but with more guidance. This task includes: |
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Propane Tanks In this task, students will be given the measurements of a particular propane tank. Their assignment is to calculate what radius length is required to double the volume capacity. This task includes: |
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Pythagorean Triples This task asks students to explore the relationships between Pythagorian triples, or numbers that fullfill the Pythagorean Theorem. This task includes: |
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